Fruit-picker&#39;s bag.



E. J. MASON;

FRUIT PIGKERS BAG.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 3, 1909.

Patented Feb EDWARD J. MASON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FRUIT-PICKERS BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1910.

Application filed April 3, 1909. Serial No. 487,634.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. MASON, a

citizen of the United States, residing in Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement inFruit-Pickers Bags, of which the following is a specification. Thisinvention is a new and useful construction of bag for picking fruit,together with means for suspending and emptying said bag, the objectbeing to provide a cheap, and simple device by means of which fruit canbe quickly and easily picked from the tree, and collected in the bag,without bruising, and then lowered and discharged or emptied from thebag, without injury to the fruit so collected; and a still furtherobject is to provide a bag of such construction that it can bedischarged to either the right or the left, while the picker is stillupon the ladder, thereby enabling said picker to discharge the bag inany direction he desires, and without necessitating his descent of theladder.

With these various objects in view, my invention consists in the novelfeatures of construction, hereinafter fully described and pointed out inthe claims.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification :-Figure 1 is aperspective View of a bag constructed in accordance with my invention.Fig. 2 is a detail sectional View of the lower end of the same. Fig. 3is a detail View of the bail or handle. 7

In constructing a fruit pickers bag, in accordance with my invention, Iemploy a bag A of canvas or any other suitable material, and this bagcan be made any size desired. At the top of this bag is a metal ring B,to which is pivoted a wire bail or handle G, which at the center isupset as shown at C to provide a slot or loop into which the lower hookD of the hanger is adapted to fit, the upper hook D of said hanger Dbeing intended to fit over a limb of the tree for the purpose ofsuspending the bag in the tree within easy reach of the picker, whom itwill of course be understood is on the ladder, or otherwise elevated inthe tree. The hanger D has an eye D produced therein, intermediate theupper and lower hooks, and to this eye is connected a rope, one portionof the said rope being carried down, and

connected to the bottom of the bag, as hereinafter explained, while theother and greater portion of said rope extends upwardly and is handledand controlled by the picker, and it will be understood that the lengthof rope will be governed by the height of the tree.

In operation the fruit is picked from the tree, and put into the bag,and when said bag is filled, the hook D is removed from the limb and thebag lowered by the rope E, and when the bag reaches the ground the hookD will become disengaged from the bail or handle, and then by drawing upon the rope the contents of the bag will be emptied, inasmuch as the endof the rope is connected to the bottom of the bag, and as the rope isdrawn up, the bag of course becomes inverted, and is consequentlyemptied. Now, in order to provide for discharging the contents of thebag to either the right or the left, as may be desired, I connect thelower end of the rope E to the bottom of the bag by means of a curvedguide rod F which is curved to correspond with the bottom of the bag,and adjacent each end 1s upset to provide recesses F, into which thering E carried at the end of the rope is adapted to drop, as the rope isdrawn to either the right or the left, as it is desired to discharge thecontents of the bag in the opposite direction. The extreme ends of thewire F are passed through the bag and headed down, washers beingemployed upon the opposite sides of the bag, as shown at F in order toprevent the ends of the wire pulling out.

It will thus be seen that I provide a cheap,

simple and eflicient construction of pickers bag, capable of carryingout all of the objects hereinbefore mentioned.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is l. A bag having a bail connected to theupper end thereof, a rope slidably connected at its lower end to thebottom of the bag, and a double hooked hanger connected to said ropeintermediate its ends, as set forth.

2. A bag having a bail connected to the upper end thereof, said bailhaving a central slot or loop, a rope slidably connected at its lowerend to the bottom of the bag, and a double hooked hanger connected tosaid rope ends thereof, a ring adapted to slide upon intermediate itsends, as set forth. said rod, the end 0 the rope being connect- 10 3. Abalg hazlzing 1a bail connected to 1its ed to said ring, for the purposeset forth.

upper enc, sai bai having a centra s ot T or loop, a rope, a hangerconnected to said EDWVARD MASOB' rope, and having upper and lower hooks,a l/Vitnesses:

guide rod connected to the lower end of the JAMES A. MARTIN,

bag, and having ofisets or recesses at the CHAS. E. BROOK.

